Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-23
NEBRASKA.

$1,000.
Mrs. Lapgtry is hooked for Fremont the
| eth inst.
The Leader-sentinel, Of Falls City, has
suspended.
The state fair will be held at Lincoln se,-
tember GIG.
Hebron laid the corner stone for a Masonic
hall on the 18Th.
| Col. Hoagland is working among the poor
children OF Lincoln.
A city cire ctory is In the hands Of the rim
tiers In Grand Island.
The Burlington bridge at Nebraska City
will cost $500, 600.
Ex-senator Van Wyck will make al address
at the celebration and barbecue at Springfield
on the 2lst inst.
The approximate cost of the packing
house to be built at Fremont is $40, 600. The
capacity of the house will be about 40 hogs
a dag.
Chas. volmer was sentenced in Omaha on
the 18th to twenty years in the penitentiary
for killing Dennis Qu.nlan. The prisoner
broke Town and Tert like a child.
Tie Tribune flee at Btlvidere had a mar
row escape from destruction by fire On the
18th 10y the explosion OF some gasoline in the
rear part Of the building. Loss, $15C.
There were l04 teachers in attendance upon
the Dodge county teachers institute at Free
mont on the 12th, the largest number ever in
attendance at an institute in the county.
Thomas Boggs, residing IN the vicinity o.
Flley, attempted suicide 90 the 18th by TAX
ing poison. DespoudeIcy and disappointment
in a love sfi lir is supposed TO be the cause.
Norfolk News, 10: "If you'd hang up a
red stocking you'd get a better light than
that a citizen remarked to the marshal as
the street lamps were being lit last evening.
The motion for u new trial for Ell. Carr,
the murderer OF Warren Long, was oyerruled
by Judge Tiffany at Albion on the 18th, and
Carr was sentenced to be hanged on the 18th
Of November.
Ed Carr, the murderer of Warren Long, in
Boone county has been added to the list OF
hempstretchers. He was given until Novem-
Der IS to negotiate for a comfortable corner
IN the hereafter.
eve doubt II the acquisition Of the car
shops at Fremont would prove a CREST deal
more of a business benefit than does the
present supply yard" philosophically remarks
the Fremont Herald.
A capitalist from Whitehall, New York,
proposes TO start a fruit canning plant In
Nebraska City this fall. No better location
can be had In the state, as Otoe county holds
the banner in that line.
Work was Monday resumed on the new
steel bridge OF the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy road ct Nebraska City. This structure
will cost 1000, 900 and will be ready for the
rails about April l, 1888.
James Greenwood, son Of Judge F. T.
Greenwood, Of Nebraska City, wandered from
home In a demented condition on Tuesday,
the 5th, and had not been heard from up to
Saturday. 1t is feared he was drowned.
The Nebraska City council is unable to
agree on the amount Of bonds to be voted
for paving and sewers and thus blries the
hope Of progress for an indefinite period.
The mossbscks of the town are jubilant.
The Schuyler Herald rejoices that "Armour,
the great meat packer of Chicago, has decid.
ed to locate one of his gigantic packing es.
I ~ Diiahh. 10 hob why a
great thing for Omaha, but for the state as
well. 1t means a better market for cattl,
and hogs"
William Dew died at Atkinson on Thurs.
day from the result OF injuries received two
days before. He was herdirg horses, and
Just as he was in the act of throwing his
Iasso his pony collided with another and fell,
apJ rnrp nau, tbrnrpn ,i,1.pt1r 90 ~,
ground.
Barney ~FitZsimmoas, who killed Pear
Fccade three years ago in Mollie Halls bag,
inc in Lincoln, and who was tried and con
victed Of manslaughter and sentenced To the
Penitentiary for five years, was pardoned on
the 18th by Gov. Thayer, after serving TIVE
years and ten months OF his time.
Louise, the 12-year-old daughter OF VIM.
Zeiles, Of Nebraska City, died on the llth OF
lockiaw, after several hours Of intense suf.
fering. A week before, while playing In the
dooryard about her home, she stepped on a
garden rake which was lying In the grass
one Of the teeth puncturing her foot.
The haiist.rm Of last week was very severe
In the neighborhood OF Fontanelle. 1t coy.
eTtG II hlTtAk Ol ABOUT TWO mics III WlOtB,
badly ~injuring the crol S, and In places killing
chickens, some Of the haistones being as large
as six inches in circumference. About 100
bushels Of apples were Knocked from the
trees In Mr.. Hartung's orchard. The storm
extended from the peighborhood of Lyons to
Arlington.
Hastings special, 10: Among eight tramps
arrested here last night one giving the name
OF John Hurter was this morning identified
by Deputy Sneriff Wake, OF Columbus, Neb.,
as one OF the three men who burned SCOTS
livery stable and nineteen horses there last
Friday night, the real intention being 10 de-
stroy the Clother hotel. Hunter and the other
two arc said 10 be the tools OF conspirators
living AZ Columbus, and some sensational
revelations are expected.
Hoffman, the traia " ecker, lies In Jail at
Nebraska City awaiting execution on the
22I OF he month. Efforts are being made In
us behalf that the sentence be
from death TO life imprisonment. Albert s.
Cole, ot Nebraska City, attorney for Hoffman,
accompanied by a sister of the condemned
man, visited Lincoln on the 12.h and were
cloSeted with tle governor. The time for
SETON In tie supi,ne court hiss Iassed, aod